THE NEW POCKET FARRIER. 73 



TAKE CARE OF YOUR HAY AND OATS. 



If you suspect that the groom does not give him your 

 allowance, it behooves you to take care, that you have 

 thirty-six trusses in each load of hay, as well as eight 

 bushels in every quarter of oats ; and that they are not 

 brewed j for there are some men that can turn oats into 

 ale. 



A CAUSE OF BROKEN WIND. 



If a groom gallops his horse when he is full of water, 



he will tell you it is to warm the water in his belly ; 

 from hence often comes a broken wind. Make that fellow 

 drink a full quart of small beer or water, and force him 

 to run two or three hundred yards upon it: I believe it 

 will cure him of that opinion. 



BAD GROOMS.- HOW TO DETECT THEIR 

 TREATMENT OF YOUR HORSE 



If a horse in his stall (when the groom comes towards 

 him) shifts from side to side, and is afraid of every 

 motion the man makes about him, it is a shrewd sign 

 that the groom beats him in your absence ; and a fellow 

 that will beat a horse, will sell his provender. 



ROWELS. 



A rowel is a kind of issue made in a horse for inward 

 strains, hard swellings, &c. But there is a wrong 

 judged custom amongst farriers concerning them. If 

 a horse is sick, they bleed him, right or wrong, give him 

 a drench and put a rowel under his belly; without 

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